Jan 21, 2009 10:18 AM
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So, it was on Wednesday itself that I purchased(at an astronomical rate) tickets to paid preview show – and as the first shots rolled, I was awed by the beautiful cinematography of a lone fighting warrior on great wall of China… I was happy my 250 rupees were being redeemed… and as the movie shifted to lushful locales of India, even then the sheer motion in which the camera moved, got me hooked some what….
And then the inevitable happened as Mr Akshay Kumar capsized what was essentially a good motion picture for the fist five minutes of its running length beyond all hopes of redemption… and then we all rolled downhill with bizarre and almost obscene garrulous script and acting which turned the movie touted as ‘first true bollywood Kung fu movie’ into something like a cross between Saas bahu serials, Govinda –David Dhavan comedy routines and a punch thrown in here and there!
I wont go into the story… we all know about a simpleton cook at Chandani Chowk who is tricked into a sojourn into China, to fight an evil crime lord(Gordon Liu of 36 chambers of shaolin fame- he would take this ignominy into his grave). I would rather talk about Akshay Kumar… the lone ‘independent’ superstar in the industry of Khans… See, here is the thing… Akshay Kumar is a fellow who any audience would love… any viewer would forgive any occasional on screen follies of him… because he is a likeable fellow… but likeable as he is, It would take a lot of time for me to purchase premium tickets for any forthcoming movie of his.
Why?
Because Chandani chowk to China tricked me into believing that we would see what is a brilliant Warner brother powered ‘action comedy’ …. Did we see that? Nooooooo!
All we saw was a bumbling buffoon caught up into a movie which is neither a true action movie, nor something, we can laugh with…(rather laugh at)…I tell you… what was the need to create a back story of two lost sisters –something we are not interested in, when we would rather see Akshay Kumar bash up a few baddies… Also, why would I want to see everyone breaking into tears, saas bahu serial style, every few minutes…?(This is the first kung fu movie in the world to have been successfully mated with Saas bahu serial format- where our Chinese brethren shed tears)… why the irritating ‘twinkle twinkle ‘ music every such time, when the director wanted to denote some ‘emotion’…
Deepika is lovely and so is her ‘other action packed’ self… but she also shares some of the ignominy in those ‘ads- within the movie’ which serve no true purpose… and the screen play itself demands that you forget the story line every 15 mins or so… and continue to sit like an obedient puppet who has just been conned of 250 rupees…
In the theatre, the avid citizens of Pune, were moaning with pain…(arre, yeh kab khatam ho ga!? Meow Meow!) may be they did not lament the 250 rupees…. But they lamented the fact that the movie was inflicting cinematic pain on their creative souls… how something which could have been so good, could turn so bad…
Advise: Avoid it… or purchase tickets in a few weeks for a Sunday morning show which would not cost more than fifty bucks!
